Projects

Current Projects

  • ExploDTwin

    Simulation technology has been a cornerstone in the European Space Agency (ESA) and the broader European Space industry for several decades, playing a pivotal role across various phases of a space mission's lifecycle. The Digital Twin (DT) concept enhances simulators with dynamic and self-evolving models, with real-time bi-directional data assimilation …

  • Step RL

    Andrea Micheli, head of the PSO unit, won the ERC 2023 in the Starting Grant category, a prize dedicated to talented European researchers at the beginning of their career. Abstract Planning -- devising a strategy to achieve a desired objective -- is one of the basic forms of intelligence. Temporal planning studies …

  • AI4Work

    Human-centric Digital Twin Approaches to Trustworthy AI and Robotics for Improved Working Conditions (AI4WORK) aims to develop a set of methods and tools for Sliding Work Sharing between humans and AI/robotics services, ensuring optimal balance between human and machine activities depending on situational context, machine-based confidence levels, and human-machine …

  • AI-Prism

    AI-PRISM will improve the state of manufacturing processes through the introduction of human-centred AI-based solutions, to increase the satisfaction levels of the customer and the productivity of the manufacturer, at all stages. The pillars are: Human-centred collaborative robotic platform Human robot cooperation ambient Social human-agent-robots teams collaboration Open access network …

Closed Projects

  • AIPlan4EU

    Automated Planning and Scheduling is a central research area in AI that has been studied since the inception of the field and where European research has been making strong contributions over decades. Planning is a decision-making technology that consists in reasoning on a predictive model of a system being controlled …

  • ROBDT

    MBSE technology such as simulation has been adopted for decades at ESA and European industry. During the lifecycle of a space mission a number of models are developed to support simulation and other analysis capabilities addressing needs specific of the project phase. Typical concerns are: feasibility assessment, design optimization and …

  • AD(H)OC

    AD(H)OC aims to focus on the prediction of consumption and operational planning for industrial facilities equipped with combined heat and power (CHP) systems for electricity, thermal energy, or refrigeration. The objective is to design and prototype planning algorithms and predictive models based on Artificial Intelligence techniques. General Info …

  • HyDrone

    This project is part of a key workstream activity of the company financing this activity which aims at changing the paradigm of underwater inspections and interventions via a fleet of next-generation drones and advanced ancillary equipments. Within this project we designed and developed the Autonomous Reasoning Engine for the subsea …

  • MAIS: Mechanical Automation Integration System

    The Mechanical Automation Integration System was an ambitious project aimed at the development of a platform for the automatic control of electroplating plants. We discovered that for this project, the combination of the planning and the scheduling sub-problems was intractable for existing domain-independent planers. In the project we developed a …

  • AWARD: Automated Warehousing and Last Mile Delivery

    In AWARD, we were responsible for the intra-logistic planning of a warehouse using Automated Guided Vehicles and by coordinating the last mile deliveries using drones. Self-learning planning algorithms, based on academic knowledge and machine learning Techniques Hybrid architecture; Warehouse: smart network, ‘dumb’ clients: central intelligence that directs the robots and …

  • UAV Retina

    Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) are used to help in search and rescue of people lost in natural environments. UAV-Retina project aims at creating automatic drone platforms that can capture infrared, thermal and visible images from aerial views. Platforms scan accurately the zone of interest optimizing their paths, in order to …

  • iLAADR / iLEVATOR

    In digitalized factories, production environments is highly dynamic and machines, robots, autonomous logistics vehicles and human workers will work together seamlessly. iLEVATOR (intraLogistics Enabled by autonomous Vehicles cooperATing with Operators and Robots) provides industries using warehouses and/or handling a variety of components with a platform to improve the collaboration …